Combination-tool.



No. 851,351. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

A. HANLBY. COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FIL'BD JUNE 22, 1906- Mtnesses= Inventor, 2 By his Attom ey; d y

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ALFRED I-IANLEY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

COlVlBlNATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed June 22,1906. Serial No. 322,825.

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Be it known that I, ALFRED I'IANLEY, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city and county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tool, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combination tools, and consists of an improvement in implements intended for the use of carpenters, and comprises, in one member, a plurality of nail sets, combined with a plurality of Wrenches, and also with a plurality of screw drivers, the organization being such that one part sti'ifens and co-operates with the others for producing one compact implement adapted for a plurality of uses.

The improvement not only contemplates the assemblage of these elements into a combination tool, but also that they be so disposed. as to all'ord a convenient implement, one possessing considerable strength and also of such dimensions in each direction that it will not readily fall through small openings and cracks, as for instance in a floor before this has been properly tightened. It is a disadvantage found by most carpenters that they lose their nail sets, particularly in house building, the nail set being comparatively small as generally constructed will fall through small openings and cracks. Also from its resemblance to a nail it will be dillicult at times to find the set when the workman wants it. This improved tool is such that it will not readily fall through such small openings, and having distinct characteristics it will, when wanted for use, be easily distinguishable.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification Figure 1 is an elevation of an implement or combination tool embodying my present improvement;

and Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof.

The body portion of the device is designated in a general way by 5, and is shown as having substantially flat faces 6, 7. The body portion is shown as carrying upon its edge, when the faces of the body portion are considered as determining what is the edge, a plurality of nail sets with their proper heads for receiving the hammer blow. In the present illustration there are shown two of these nail sets; one of these embodies a nail engaging point 8 and a head or hammer portion 9, the other of which comprises similar parts 10 and 11.. These are set quartering in the pres ent instance and their axial lines are represented by the dash and dot lines a and 1). One of the nail set members may be made longer than the other, as for instance the nail engaging point 10, which may ordinarily serve as a handle whereby the workman may hold the tool in position and properlymanipulate it. This will bring his hands away from his line of vision so that he can without twisting his head see the position of the set point at all times. One of the points may be made smaller than the other, the larger point in the present instance being the point designated by 8, and which nail set is shorter than the other. The body portion of the tool is also provided with a number of transverse openings each extending between the faces 6 and 7. i There are shown in the present instance four of such openings, which are designated in the present instance for convenience of description by the reference characters 12, 13, Hand .15. It will be seen by reference more particularly to Fig. 2 that the walls of these openings, designated without preference by the reference character 16, are tapering, in the present instance tapering from the face 6 toward the face 7. These openings may be made square as in the present instance for the accommodation of square nuts or other devices which it is desired to turn thereby, although by showing these square it is not intended to limit the invention to square wrench holes. By this tapering of the holes a gradation of wrenches may be effected. In the present instance there are four wrench openings, but since these taper, eight wrenches will be provided. Thus in Fig. 1 the full lines 20, 21, 22 and 23 of the wrench openings 12, 13, 14 and 15, respectively, where these openings or the walls of these openings join the face 7 constitute a series of wrenches, and where the said walls join the face 6, as indicated more particularly in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and. which are represented by reference characters 25, 26, 27 and. 2S, constitute a series of wrenches increasing in size by thirty-seconds of an inch, and in Fig.

2 but two of these are seen, namely 26 and 27; the wrench openings in the face 7 are also illustrated as progressing in size by thirty seconds. wrenches increasing by sixty-fourths. This degree of progression, of course, is merely arbitrary in the present illustration.

It will be seen that the extensions or projections 8, 9, 10 and 11 constitute finger grips when the device is employed as a wrench. This Wrench employment is particularly useful in putting up molding when it is desired to use a gimlet bit for boring a hole through the molding or into the wall upon which it is being fastened. In which positions it is rather di'llicult to use a bit-stock,- and then the same implement which is used as the handle for the bit may also be used as a nail-set This will provide a series of eight 5 for setting the nail which is driven into the Q hole which has been bored.

In the manner in which the implement is here laid out it will be seen that in cutting out or otherwise forming the wrench openings these are so arranged one relatively to the crease in lateral dimension is for the purpose above referred to of presenting a structure which will not readily pass through small cracks.

The openings through the body of the device not only serve the function of wrenches, but they aiso materially reduce the mass of metal within the tool, thereby decreasing its weight without decreasing its bulk or external dimensions.

Having described my invention I claim:

1. The combination tool comprising a bod portion having a number of nail-set hammer heads and nail-set points disposed about its edge, and a number of openings through said body portion for reducing the weight of the tool and constituting wrenches so disposed throughout said body portion that a continuous body of metal will extend in a straight line from the head to the point other and to the other portions of the device 1 that there will be two transversely disposed webs or walls 30, 31. the wall 30 will be in the line of the axis a of the nail set 89, and the same may be said of the wall 31 relatively to the axis 6 of the nail set 10-1 1. By this means the wrench openings located within the body portion 5 will not reduce the strength of such body below the requirements of use, and there will be a suiiicient body of metal extending from the head to the point of each set along the axis of such set. tool, but eliminates undesirable springiness, and also prevents the distortion of the wrench openings which otherwise might ensue. course all the strain from the hammer blows and reaction from the nail will not be borne by these webs or walls, but some of it will pass around the openings through the body or the structure. Suflicient metal, however, is provided along the direct line for the purposes above alluded to.

Not only for the purpose of providing screw drivers, but also additional strength and increase in lateral dimension the webs may carry screw drivers; the web 30 is shown as carrying a screw driver blade 32, and the web 31 is shown as carrying a screw driver tral portion add to their rigidity, and rein- The central plane of 5 This not only adds strength to the 3 force these at and adjacent to their point of 1 intersection. The provision of these screw drivers, since they are relatively thm,w1ll add but little to the weight of the device and to the cost of the manufacture of the same, but 1 will greatly increase its lateral dimension without adding to its bulkiness. This inof each or said nail-sets.

2. The combination tool comprising a body portion having a pair of nail-set 11ammer heads and a pair of nail-set naii points disposed about its edge, and a number of transverse openings so disposed throughoutsaid body portion that a continuous body of metal will extend in a straight line from the head to the point of each nail-set, and screw drivers laterally extending from said continuous bodies and reinforcing the same.

3. The combination tool comprising a body portion of substantial thickness, a series of angularly shaped tapering holes extending through said body, the taper of said holes being so proportioned that successive steps of graduation in size of opening, of a progressive series of openings, will occur upon alternate sides of said body, and a number of outwardly extending nail sets carried by said body and constituting finger grips when the tool is used as a wrench.

4. The combination tool comprising a body portion carrying a pair of transversely disposed nail-sets, said body portion having four wrench openings traversing the same,

5 and having a pair of transversely disposed partitions or walls each of which is disposed in a line between the head and point of one of the nail sets, and laterally extending screw drivers carried by and reinforcing said partitions at and adjacent to their intersection.

5. The combination tool comprising a bot y portion of substantial thickness having a pair of nail-set hammer heads and a pair of nail set points disposed about its edge, said heads and points of the sets being disposed in the same plane, and said sets having their axes disposed transversely one to the other, said body portion having four tapering wrench openings traversing the same, the tapering of said openings being so proportioned ITO that successive steps of graduation in size of the openings Will occur upon alternate sides of said body, and said body having a pair of transversely disposed partitions or walls each of which is disposed in a line between the head and point of one of the nailsets, and a pair of screw drivers carried by said partitions and extending laterally therefrom in planes perpendicularly disposed to the plane of said nail sets.

Signed at Nos. 915 Murray street, New York, N. Y. this 18th day of June, 1906.

ALFRED HANLEY.

W'itnesses:

JOHN L. BENTLEY, CHAS. LYON RUssELL. 

